"I just love all the cats in the whole world" Why I cried Sunday.

Possibly my favorite video on the internet is the eharmony /cat loving/crying lady.  It's here.  Seriously - you should watch it.

It's funny because it's so ridiculous.  That's pretty much how I felt at the end of our second service Sunday.

First of all, I'm not a crier.  True I will cry, sometimes, during commercials, every time I see Titanic, and then at breakfast with my kids.  However, NO ONE SEES IT!  It's those little emotional cries that don't come to the surface.  That's how I like it.  No need to explain it and no need to slow the day down.

Sunday, I sobbed...on the stage...at the end of the service.  I do this for a living (not the crying part).  I preach funerals without crying.  I am a fairly emotionally stable dude.  But I balled.

Here's why.

For the first time in my life I feel like I felt just a moment of what some people have felt their entire lives.

I have never been in a position in life where I didn't know that someone loved me.  Great parents then and a great wife now.  I have always felt supported and cared for.  I have never truly felt as if no one cared about me.

Sunday I felt it for a moment as I was singing How He Loves by John Mark McMillan.  You can see it here.  It's an overwhelming song for me.  Singing this song with a group of people brings me the closest I have ever been to really feeling the overwhelming and all-encompassing love of God.

Last Sunday I finally felt, if just for a moment, what it must feel like to not know that God loves you completely and their are people in this world who will love you for who you are.

Not everyone alive is looking to get something from you.  Some of us will love you because you are a child of the God who loves all of us.

And if you live in Bradenton or the surrounding area - come test that theory out at our church - Westside Christian Church.

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